Architect IM Pei

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IM Pei

Living place: Guangzhou

Birthday: 26-4-1917

Global rank: #37674

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Architect IM Pei profile

Who is Architect IM Pei?
Chinese-American architect of sleek 20th-century building; considered the Master of Modern Architecture, who was inspired by the garden of Suzhou. . He was also controversial, especially after he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for Paris' Musée du Louvre in the early 1980s.
He founded I. M. Pei & amp; Associates in 1955 after working for seven years under notable New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf; His organization would become known as I. M. Pei & amp; Partner in 1966, then Pei Cobb Freed & amp; Partner in 1989.

Young / Before famous

He went to a school in Shanghai, allowing students only half of a day, a month free time. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in design after moving to the United States in 1935. He eschewed the Beaux-Arts architecture that the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have. got and started studying emerging architects like Le Corbusier. He became friends with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both famous Bauhaus architects.

Family life info

He and Eileen Loo were married in 1939; she introduced herself to the GSD community. He fathered four children with her, including future architects Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei.

Close relationship

Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect IM Pei là ai?
He wanted to go to college in the United States after seeing the fun school possibly from the Bing Crosby movie he had watched.

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Summary of IM Pei profile

When was Architect IM Pei born?
IM Pei was born in 26-4-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Architect IM Pei's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
IM Pei was born in Guangzhou, of China. Là Architect, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. IM Pei's global rank is 37674 and whose rank is 19 in list of famous Architect.

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Events in 1917 and 26-4

Events in the world in the birth year of IM Pei

First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday IM Pei (26-4) in history

Day 26-4 year 1607: The first British people settled in America. Cape Henry was the first place they landed
Day 26-4 year 1865: John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.
Day 26-4 year 1937: The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.
Day 26-4 year 1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form Tanzania.
Day 26-4 year 1986: The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.
Day 26-4 year 1994: The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.
Day 26-4 year 2000: Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.